Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.

Music to me is just like breathing. I have to have it. It's part of me.

I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'